By D Grace of God: A Story About Trust and the Hope for Humanity
This post is going to be a bit different. I am going to be talking about a quirky little event that has occurred between a man in America and a man in Liberia, and how expectations can be subverted if we all take a chance. The story goes that Pleasant Green received a Facebook message by a man in Liberia named Joel. Joel appeared at first as some sort of con man, but Green humored him, saying that if he wasted Joel's time, then he would not be able to scam others. Green made a business proposition that if Joel were to take some photos of his home, then maybe Green would pay him for the photos he liked. What seemed to be at first a scam, turned into something different. Seeing that Joel was taking this seriously, Green sent him a basic $30 camera, and what happened next was incredible. The photos got better, the photos revealed the life that exists in Liberia as well as the struggles. Green then got the idea to run an IndieGoGo campaign to help fund a book made up of the photos